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33: EYHO x Great Lakes Now: How to Feed A Great Lakes Freighter Crew
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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How to Feed A Great Lakes Freighter Crew spotlights chief stewards who are upping the food game aboard Great Lakes freighters. Meet two chefs who ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Ocean and Humans are Inextricably Interconnected
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Undersea cables carry telecommunications and Internet data globally, Credit: TeleGeography
"The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected." So states the sixth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us b...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:45
Green New Deal and the Blue Economy
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The Green New Deal has received much attention in the United States recently as one possible response to the challenging circumstances we face worl...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 05:16
Split Rock Lighthouse | Lake County, Minn.
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 87 Counties | 87+ Stories
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Wanted: Lighthouse Keeper, must live on the edge of a cliff, host 160,000 visitors a year, and keep your yard looking like it did in 1920. KFAI’s R...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2019
  • Length: 03:59
Icy Great Lakes causes concern for shipping, safety
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Current Great Lakes ice cover, Credit: NOAA GLERL
Over the past two winters, there wasn’t much ice cover on the Great Lakes. That changed with this month’s deep freeze. Ice is expected to cover al...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WVBI-LP, WCMU Michigan, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 01:09
  • Purchases: 12
Ships deal with high water levels on Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Port of Oswego, 2016, Credit: WRVO file photo
Historically high water levels on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River are presenting the shipping industry with both challenges and opportunitie...

Bought by WLPR , WMUK, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:10
  • Purchases: 8
Can Asian carp be kept out of Lake Michigan?
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Troubled Waters: Trump and the Great Lakes
Caption: Kiowa pushes barges over electric carp barrier , Credit: Chuck Quirmbach
NOTE: EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 12 President Trump's 2018 eliminates $300 million for projects along the Great Lakes. That threatens efforts to...

Bought by WLPR , WXXI Rochester, Wisconsin Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 9
Beer tanks float down Erie Canal
From: Great Lakes Today
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In the 200 years since ground was broken on the Erie Canal, it has evolved from means of transportation and mode of industrial shipping -- to a pla...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, North Country Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 5
Oil pipeline bills get praise from environmental groups
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Controverisal Line 5 / the Straits of Mackinac, Credit: Controverisal Line 5 / the Straits of Mackinac
An oil pipeline that runs across part of the Great Lakes has been the target of criticism for months. Now environmental groups in the region are ap...

Bought by WBFO, North Country Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, and WCPN


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 5
What happens when the Great Lakes shipping season ends?
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Building tug Cleveland at Great Lakes Towing, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
During the 10-week break between shipping seasons, ships undergo repairs and crews are laid off from their work.

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 4
U.S., Canada to change Lake Ontario water levels
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Lake Ontario Shoreline, Credit: Joe deSousa, Flickr
Officials in the United States and Canada have approved a plan to allow the level of Lake Ontario to fluctuate more -- a change that has been oppos...

Bought by WSKG, WRVO Public Media, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 5
Illegal dumping plagues Great Lakes and other waters
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Caribbean Princess
two cut-and-copies on illegal dumping, taken from a Here & Now interview with Great Lakes Today editor Dave Rosenthal

Bought by WXXI Rochester and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 2
The Eco-History of Guano
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Living Lab on The Point
Caption: The depletion of Peru's guano islands lay at the heart of the War of the Pacific. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons
It enabled the industrialization of agriculture, led to the discovery of El Nino, helped spawn the modern environmental movement, and lay at the he...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 49:30
245: Maritime Silk Road
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The "silk road" of Marco Polo's 13th century journey to the East is being revived, as is its ocean parallel, the "maritime silk road" which is fast...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 05:11
Musician Tip No. 18 - Paul Beard
From: WAMU
Series: Musician Tips
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Tips on shipping instruments from Paul Beard.

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 02:46